Hi all-

I have quite a few talks coming up that I thought I would share with you.  If you happen to be at any of these conferences stop by and introduce yourself.  I love talking about Maps and GIS.

ESRI Petroleum User Group (PUG) Conference.  April 3-5th Houston, Texas.

• Evaluating Structural Controls on Phanerozoic Rocks.  April 4th, 2pm.  My collegue, Nick Callaghan will be presenting on applied visualization techniques on subsurface geologic data using ArcScene and ModelBuilder.
• Using Mapdex to Discover Petroleum Web Mapping Services.  April 4th, 4pm.  I will be giving a Mapdex talk targetted to the Petroleum industry.

MidAmerica GIS Consortium (MAGIC) Biennial MAGIC Symposium.  April 23-27th.

• Getting the most of ArcIMS.  A short course on April 27th, 1-5pm.  Ken Nelson and I will be running this short course.  We will touch on topics such as:  ArcIMS installation and configuration, database integration techniques, and ArcIMS management.
• Mapdex:  An OnLine Index of Map Services.  April 25th, 2:30pm.  I will be presenting on all things cool related to Mapdex.
• Web Mapping Breakout Session.  April 27th, 10-noon.  Amber Reynolds of KS Data Access and Support Center, Patrick Brown of Iowa State University, Dan Haag of ESRI, St. Louis, Ricie Pierce of Arkansas Geographic Information Office, and myself will be on a panel discussing Internet mapping.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Hi All-

The ArcIMS Birds of a Feather at the ESRI Developer Summit went well.  Even though it wasn't very well advertised, the discussion was great.  You can download the powerpoint from Anne and I here.

Email me if you have any questions.  Thanks to Anne and Ravi for joining us and to Brian Goldin for talking me into doing it.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Hi All-

Brian Goldin of www.spatiallyenabled.com talked me into running an ArcIMS Birds-of-a-Feather session at the ESRI Developer Summit.  I know there are a lot of ArcIMS developers out there.  Come and let your voice be heard.  Anne Reuland and Ravi Narayanan from ESRI will join us.  We will talk a bit about...

• Using ArcIMS with your Enterprise Database;
• Adding raster images (png, jpg, gif) dynamically into GET_IMAGE requests;
• The value of setting your map service projection;
• Creating web applications in ArcIMS 9.2 (Site Builder and Web ADF);
• The role of ArcIMS and ArcGIS server.

See you there.

Friday March 15.  12pm - 12:45pm – Sierra / Ventura

Jeremy

Cadcorp has written a Mapdex plugin for their Cadcorp SIS 6.2 GIS software package.  This allows you to search Mapdex via the REST api and add ArcIMS services directly to  Cadcorp SIS.  Great job.

Here are some screen shots:

Searching for "orto"...


Leads to ortophotos from the Czech Ministry of Environment (xeon.env.cz).



Cheers,

Jeremy

I wanted to talk a bit about the project that led me to build Mapdex.  In Winter of 2004 my organization was awarded funding from the US Department of Energy to build a distributed atlas for carbon sequestration (www.natcarb.org).  We were tasked with creating an online atlas that integrated and displayed data from seven different partnerships.  For this project we went with a distributed approach to managing and serving this spatial data.  We built a portal that allows us to simultaneously request maps and data from remote disparate map services (ArcIMS and WMS 1.1.x).  Essentially when a client requests a map from Natcarb we simultaneously request an image from each of the integrated partners, merge the images on our server, and send the final image back to the client.  As we were building the framework to connect each of the partnerships, we realized that we could use data from ANY map service.  National datasets like...

• National Elevation Dataset from seamless.usgs.gov;
• Digital Orthophoto quarter quads from terraserver.microsoft.com;
• North America Satellite Imagery from the geographynetwork.com;
• National Map Infrastructure maps from seamless.usgs.gov;

are at our fingertips.

This infrastructure allows us to serve approximately 150 geographic layers from over 15 different organizations in one portal.

I see targeted portals as an exciting/useful development opportunity.  What do I mean by targeted portals?  Something like (but not exclusive) the natcarb project.  In that project we are building a website that makes use of distributed map services, but in a targeted way (we have picked the distributed layers that we want the public to see). 

Some group might want an interactive map site that has NED and Landcover from the Eros data center, and population from the census bureau, & parks & rec data from Kansas.  This distributed mapping approach pulls the data from the various sources, but integrates it within a website.  The user doesn't have to know where to get the data or how to ingest it.  It is a database driven application that allows the site manager to add specific layers (& columns for that matter) from distributed map services.  The ease of management of the site is the key.

Cyberinfrastructure doesn't have to be that complicated.  The technology is there, and it works.

For more info see the following powerpoints:
http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/kgs/oilgas/powerpoints/UC2004_BARTLEY_NATCARB.ppt
http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/kgs/oilgas/powerpoints/natcarb_regcarbSEQ_2005.ppt

Questions/Comments?

Jeremy